RESISTANCE REPORT : 1 JANUARY 2008

Publié le
22 février 2008

Resistance report for events of 1 january 2008 :

Bomb wounds US soldier in al-Fallujah tuesday afternoon

In a dispatch posted at 8:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a joint foot patrol of US troops and puppet policemen in the Jubayl neighborhood of western al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Tuesday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the local puppet police as saying that the explosive device, which had been planted by the side of the road, wounded one US soldier and two puppet policemen. Immediately after the attack, the Americans and their puppet police allies closed off the area.

Bombs targets puppet police patrol in al-Fallujah midday tuesday

In a dispatch posted at 4:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol to the south of al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, at midday Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the blast went off by a patrol that entered the at-Ta’mim neighborhood to the south of al-Fallujah. The bomb had been planted by the side of a road there and its explosion damaged one patrol vehicle. The source offered no information regarding the nature or extent of casualties.

Sectarian murder spree continues : three more bodies found shot to death in various parts of Bagdad tuesdayIn a dispatch posted at 8:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the puppet police had recovered the bodies of three more victims of sectarian murder that had been dumped in various parts of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that two bodies were found on the ar-Rusafah side of eastern Baghdad and one in al-Karakh in the west. All the victims had been bound, blindfolded and shot.

The Shi‘i sectarian militias are pressing ahead with sectarian abductions, torture, and murder of Sunnis in an effort to “cleanse” Baghdad and vast swaths of Iraqi territory to the south and east of Sunnis. The bloody sectarian campaign is aimed at implementation of plans to partition Iraq drawn up by Zionist and American think tanks.

The idea of “the dissolution of Iraq into a Shi‘ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” was voiced by veteran Zionist military correspondent Ze’ev Schiff in Ha'aretz on2 June 1982 and was a part of the divide-and-rule strategy laid out by Zionist writer Oded Yinon in his “Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,” published in Kivunim (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism, published by the World Zionist Organization in occupied Jerusalem in February 1982. (It was translated by the late anti-Zionist writer and activist Israel Shahak and is widely available.)

The idea of splitting the Shi‘ah in Iraq from the rest of the country was a cornerstone of the neo-Conservative strategy laid out in “A Clean Break” a paper drawn up by American Zionist government officials Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and Paul Wolfowitz in 1996 for the then Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then in 2000 the neo-Conservative Project for a New American Century wrote Rebuilding America’s Defenses on the basis of the “Clean Break.”

The American version of the strategy for a partition of Iraq appeared in the article “The Three-State Solution” published in The New York Times on 25 November 2003 by Leslie Gelb (President Emeritus of the US Council on Foreign Relations). The same idea was reiterated, this time with “bi-partisan support” in the article by Gelb and US Democratic Senator Joseph Biden in “Unity through Autonomy in Iraq,” in The New York Times on 1 May 2006.

Then on 8 October 2006 the London Sunday Times reported that the partition of Iraq along religious and ethnic lines was one of the suggestions that the Baker-Hamilton commission was advancing.

In a dispatch posted at 5:26pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a source in the puppet “Iraqi Ministry of Health” had said that the number of civilians killed under the umbrella of “American security” in the year 2007 totaled 16,232. These people were victims of bombings and violence of various kinds as well as attacks by the US occupation troops and sectarian murder.

Yaqen reported the source as saying that the puppet “Ministry of Health” had precise and confirmed statistics that bring the total civilian death toll for 2007 to 16,232. In December alone, 481 civilians were killed, and 2,000 in November, the source added.

Bomber kills 30 in attack on memorial service in eastern Bagdad tuesday afternoon

In a dispatch posted at 4:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a memorial service in the eastern Baghdad district of Zuyunah afternoon on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attacker blew himself up inside the memorial service. In a dispatch posted at 7:50pm Tuesday night, Yaqen reported a puppet police source as saying that 30 people had been killed and another 38 wounded in the afternoon attack.

In a dispatch posted at 9:38pm Makkah time Tuesday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the puppet police initially said that the memorial service was for an officer who served in the Iraqi Army before the US invasion. Later it declared that the service was in honor of an individual who had been killed in a bombing in Baghdad three days earlier.

Bagdad regime announces plans for transportation links with TeheranIn a dispatch posted at 12:45pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the puppet “Iraqi Transport Ministry,” dominated, as is the rest of the puppet regime, by Shi‘i sectarian party members, has initiated a plan for a train route linking Baghdad with Tehran, to be discussed at an upcoming meeting with a delegation from the Iranian Transportation Ministry.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet “Iraqi Transport Ministry” as saying that the Iranian delegation, headed by a deputy minister, will visit Iraq soon to discuss developing transport. The comprehensive transportation plan is also to cover the transport of passengers, busses, and trucks in addition to the participation of Iranian companies in other development projects.

The source said that regular airline service between Tehran and Baghdad would resume after years of suspension because of the Iran-Iraq war that began in 1980. Such flights have already begun on a periodical basis.

Syrian customs agents at Turkish border intercept, confiscate "Israeli" electronic spy ware bound for US-occupied IraqIn a dispatch posted at 11:30am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that Syrian customs officials at the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border had announced on 26 December that they had discovered “Israeli”-made electronic monitoring and spying devices and transmitters aboard a truck that was to transit Syria on its way from Turkey to US-occupied Iraq.

The AMSI reported that Mansur Hilal, the Director of the Bab al-Hawa Customs Post as saying that the truck was loaded with 22 packages. Upon close inspection it was found that two of those packages contained Zionist-made spying and sending and receiving devices. The Syrian authorities confiscated the instruments and launched an investigation of the firm that was responsible for the shipment.

Puppet policeman killed in clash with fighters in Yathrib late tuesday morningIn a dispatch posted at 2:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed fighters clashed with puppet police and “Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” in the Yathrib area, 70km north of Baghdad before midday Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Balad puppet police as saying that one puppet policeman was killed and six more of them wounded – two of those being officers. A police patrol vehicle was burned in the violent gun battle that took place near the village of Tall adh-Dhahab in the Yathrib area.

Eight puppet troops injured when military vehicle overturns near iranian border tuesday evening In a dispatch posted at 10:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a puppet army vehicle overturned in the Mandali area near the Iranian border, 180km northeast of Baghdad, as it was trying to pass a civilian car on the road between Mandali and Khanaqin.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet regime as saying that eight troops were injured when the vehicle, which was carrying several puppet troops, overturned Tuesday evening.

Puppet policeman killed in armed attack near Jalawla tuesdayIn a dispatch posted at 6:41pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men attacked a village near Jalawla’, 120km northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attack left one puppet policeman and four other local people dead.

US, puppet regime tropps target collaborators in tuesday morning raidIn a dispatch posted at 11:20am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US and puppet army troops raided and searched an area of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, at dawn Tuesday.

Yaqen reported an official in the puppet security forces for Diyala Province as saying that the Americans and their puppet regime allies killed one member of the collaborationist “popular awakening committees” and wounded two more of them in the course of the raid. They also arrested eight people, including one officer in the puppet police forces. The source offered no further details on the raids in which US and puppet regime troops apparently targeted people who were ostensibly supporting the US occupation.

Later, in a dispatch posted at 4:17pm Yaqen reported that the puppet police commander for Diyala Province had announced that his forces had arrested the commander of the collaborationist “popular awakening committees” in Buhriz along with three of his aids on charges that they were tied to “armed groups.”

Yaqen reported Staff Major General Ghanim al-Qurayshi as saying that the puppet police arrested Samer al-‘Ukkash, the “popular committee” chief, along with three of his aides, claiming that they had been supporters of al-Qa‘idah.

The collaborationist “popular awakening committees” were formed by the US in an effort to draw tribal elements to its side by claiming that their targets were only al-Qa‘idah and not the Iraqi Resistance. Accordingly, “Awakening” committees at times consist of individuals that had been taking part in Iraqi Resistance activities. In practice, however, the US then uses the “Awakening” councils against all Resistance activity, not only al-Qa‘idah.

Bomb target US occupation forces south of Bagdad monday night

In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US military column in northern Babil Province on Monday night.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attack occurred in the area of 10 Kish in northern Babil Province, just south of Baghdad. The blast disabled an American troop transport but inflicted no casualties, he said.

Bomb wounds three puppet army tropps in al-Huwayjah midday tuesday

In a dispatch posted at 2:05pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet army troops in the az-Zab area of al-Huwayjah, 200km north of Baghdad at midday Tuesday.

Yaqen reported that three puppet army troops were wounded in the blast and were taken immediately to a nearby hospital for treatment. The explosion also damaged a patrol vehicle.

Rockets slam into US base south of al-Mawsil monday nightIn a dispatch posted at 10:15am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that several rockets blasted into the US base at al-Qayyarah Airfield south of al-mawsil (which is 420km northwest of Baghdad) late on Monday night.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet regime’s security forces as saying that the barrage cut electric power in the base and the al-Qayyarah area and that plumes of smoke were seen rising from the facility. As of the time of reporting, the American military had made no comment on the attack.